22/05/2020 2 Minute Read

USA Softball’s Osterman, McCleney, Mulipola discuss upcoming Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games

USA Softball Olympic Team members Cat Osterman, Haylie McCleney and Dejah Mulipola gave their impressions about their journey to the next year's Olympic Games.

20/05/2020 4 Minute Read

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Tokyo 2020 softball hopeful Danielle Lawrie-Locke reflects on Beijing 2008 Olympic experience

Family has played a crucial role in the career of Canadian softball legend Danielle Lawrie-Locke, and the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games was one of the most important occasions where their support was most telling. However, team rules also made the family connection one of the hardest. Danielle and her MLB playing brother Brett were one of two softball/baseball siblings in the Beijing Games - along with Dutch pair Judith and Michiel van Kampen - however she couldn’t even see him play. Lawrie-Locke, a strong contender for the Canadian Tokyo 2020 softball squad, reflects on one of the most difficult moments in her stellar career and how the Beijing 2008 experience turned her into a better player.

16/04/2020 1 Minute Read

New roadmap for Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games in 2021 being prepared

Baseball and softball will make their return to the Olympic Games in 2021 after last featuring at Beijing 2008.

13/04/2020 2 Minute Read

GameTime Classics Episode 20: Australia v China playoff for Tokyo 2020 ticket at WBSC Asia/Oceania Olympic Qualifier

Australia and China are two superpowers of women's softball with the former having won a medal in all four previous editions of Olympic softball (a silver and three bronze medals), while the latter earned a silver medal at Atlanta 1996.

05/04/2020 1 Minute Read

GameTime Classics - Episode 12: Mexico, Canada battle to qualify for the Tokyo Olympic softball competition

Dallas Escobedo took the ball for Mexico, while Sara Groenewegen started the game for the host team, setting up an amazing pitching duel.

30/03/2020 1 Minute Read

New dates for Tokyo 2020 Olympics: 23 July to 8 August 2021

Baseball and softball will return to the Olympic Games in July 2021, following the rescheduling of the Tokyo 2020 Games in response to the coronavirus global outbreak.

24/03/2020 2 Minute Read

Message from the WBSC President Riccardo Fraccari on the postponement of Tokyo 2020

President Fraccari said baseball-softball’s anticipated Olympic comeback will have to wait a short while longer but when the ‘Tokyo 2020’ Games do get underway in 2021, they will become the symbol of our global recovery and solidarity, and be one of the greatest worldwide celebrations and most anticipated moments in the history of sport.

24/03/2020 2 Minute Read

Olympic Baseball, Softball, Tokyo 2020 Games postponed to 2021

The Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games will be rescheduled to a date beyond 2020, but not later than summer 2021, to safeguard the health of the athletes, everybody involved in the Olympic Games and the international community.

12/03/2020 2 Minute Read

Olympic softball schedule announced for Tokyo 2020 Games

The sport of softball will kick off the Olympics with a special opener between the Australian Women's National Softball Team and home team Japan in Fukushima.

28/02/2020 1 Minute Read

Tokyo 2020 animated pictograms revealed

The goal is is to highlight just how dynamic, innovative and special this Games will be. Static sports pictograms were introduced for the Tokyo 1964 Games